This week, we sat down with Professor Paul Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity. Professor Lim is an award-winning historian of Reformation- and post-Reformation Europe. His latest book, Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2012), won the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Prize as the best book in history/theology by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. He has published two other books in that area: The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (C...
Oct 15, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This week, we sat down with Washington University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jill Pasteris, to talk about living out her faith in her scientific field. Professor Pasteris’ research interests include Biomineralization and Raman spectroscopy of Geological Materials. She holds a PhD from Yale University. Pasteris collaborates with chemists and materials scientists to compare Raman and infrared (IR) spectra of biological apatite (a calcium phosphate mineral) and its synthetic analogs...
Oct 07, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This episode, we talked with Professor Abram Van Engen, Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, about his research on religion and literature. His research focuses especially on seventeenth-century Puritans and the way they have been remembered and remade in American culture. Van Engen began his career with a study of sympathy in seventeenth-century Puritanism, drawing together abiding interests in the history of emotions, theology, imagined communities, and literar...
Sep 25, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This week, we sat down with Ruth Lopez Turley, professor of sociology at Rice University. She founded the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), a research-practice partnership between Rice University and several Houston area school districts, including the Houston Independent School District. Turley also founded the National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NNERPP), which supports and develops partnerships between research institutions and education agencies throughou...
Sep 17, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode of the Carver Cast, we interview Professor Peter Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990), a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. Peter is Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy. He is most recently the author of Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003) and of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He has published numerous...
Sep 08, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Today, we connected with Pablo Tarazaga, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the general areas of structural dynamics, vibration, control, testing, adaptive structures and smart materials. Professor Tarazaga received his B.S.M.E. from the University of Puerto Rico in 2002, his M.S. from Virginia Tech in 2004, and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2009. -- The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and ...
Aug 31, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode of the Carver Cast, we interviewed Francis Su, Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. Francis Su writes about the dignity of human beings and the wonder of mathematical teaching. He is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a former president of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award, a nationwide teaching prize for college math faculty, and in 2018 he won the Halmos-Ford writi...
Aug 21, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This week's episode features Heidi Kolk, assistant professor at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts and Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Assessment. Professor Kolk holds an MA and PhD in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BA in fine arts from Hope College. She serves as a faculty fellow for the Carver Project. -- The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and highlights the work of those faculty to bridge connections ...
Aug 12, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This week's episode features Catherine Crouch, a professor of physics at Swarthmore College and a member of The Carver Project’s Academic Advisory Committee. -- The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and highlights the work of those faculty to bridge connections between university, church, and society. In doing so, it seeks to disrupt simultaneously perceptions that Christians are “anti-intellectual” and that higher education is “anti-Christian.” Tune in for a wide-ra...
Aug 03, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Our second episode of the Carver Cast features Associate Professor at the Sam Fox School of Visual Art and Design, John Hendrix. John Hendrix is a New York Times Bestselling illustrator and author of many children’s books, including Shooting at the Stars, Drawing is Magic, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus, and, most recently, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler. His first picture book, Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek, was named an ALA N...
Jul 20, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our inaugural episode of the Carver Cast features Dr. Nii Addy, associate professor psychiatry and of cellular and molecular physiology at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Addy received his B.S. in Biology from Duke University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University. At Yale, Dr. Addy directs a federally funded research program, where he and his staff use rodent models to investigate the neurobiological bases of substance abuse, depression and anxiety. Dr. Addy is also involved in gra...
Jul 14, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 1
